Massively Multi-Lingual Event Understanding: Extraction, Visualization, and Search (2023.acl-demo)
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| Challenge: | Using only English training data, ISI-Clear makes global events available on-demand in 100 languages . Using a fixed task, events may still shift from day to day . |
| Approach: | They propose a cross-lingual zero-shot event extraction system that makes global events available on-demand in 100 languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can extract events from non-English documents in 100 languages. |
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